Listening to Elissa recount the tales was bizarre for Joseph, it had been his life and yet it sounded like somebody else’s story. There was also her fiancé, Blayne, who had played a rather large role in the history it seemed. Joseph would readily admit he wasn’t any example of a gentleman, or a particularly good person, but her fiancé sounded like a real piece of work and apparently this had always been the case. Families were quite often intertwined in their fates and as they grew into adulthood, bad blood generally did not get better, and Elissa was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving end. Joseph found it strange to hear about his father when he could barely recall him, but she had mentioned that she’d thought Joseph had left, and that he’d explained to her that he was leaving, and yet the pirates that had pulled him from the water hadn’t said that he’d come from a shipwreck, but from the top of the cliffs. The thoughts swirled in Joseph’s mind, something for sure didn’t sit right. One of the cabin boys banged on the door which made him jump slightly, this rightly annoyed him as Elissa would have felt his body flex as he was startled, “come back later!” he barked, “aye Captain” the voice sounded nervous from the other side. 

The Captain gave a deep sigh, he’d learned from Elissa that like her, his mother was no longer alive. There was some comfort at least in not knowing things for certain, he could have some shred of belief that perhaps he wasn’t truly alone, but it unfortunately seemed to be the case.

[i]It was like we were meant to be together[/i] maybe so, they’d shared a lot of struggles together by the sounds of it, but, a lot had changed since then.

“Elissa, did I ever tell you why I was leaving?” maybe she knew, or maybe way back when he’d thought it better not to say.